Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Apple vs Amazon in 2022!”.
Thanks to roborock for sponsoring a portion of this video so like at first glance, amazon and apple might not seem like direct competitors they’re both in the tech space but like one’s an online marketplace where you buy everything. The other is like a product focused company, but the more you dig into it and the more i’ve dug into it, because i don’t know that’s just how i’m wired, weird uh, amazon and apple have their tentacles intertwined in many different areas and they compete in a Lot more areas than than i ever thought, even more. Interestingly, in a lot of ways, amazon is beating the snot out of apple where it matters most. Let me explain so i think it’s pretty easy to think the only product amazon makes are like echo devices with. Obviously the a word built in but the past few years, amazon has gone from like dipping its toe to just full on jumping in to a lot of categories.
That apple is currently the king of remember, amazon’s. First hardware product was actually the kindle and it’s still the most popular e-reader in the world, and it’s single-handedly defined that category. You could buy a book from amazon and read it on the kindle. It worked uh now obviously apple’s trying to take a crack at this. With the ipad and obviously hundreds of thousands of people that use the ipad for reading, but the experience of actually reading is just, i don’t think it’s the same and safe to say, i think amazon figured out the best way to read digitally. That being said, amazon has not done everything right. You might remember this guy, it’s the fire phone. I don’t i don’t blame.
You doesn’t ring any bells, but this is the first and last phone that amazon ever made uh. I wish i could have shared like the hype that was around this thing back in 2014, this was gon na, be the most revolutionary phone that we had ever seen. It was gon na be 3d. It’S going to be running android, it’s going to be integrated with amazon, it was going to be an absolute beast and we saw the concept in 2014 like i said, and it was awesome.
So obviously it ran android, but much like the fire tablets. It was a completely skinned version that amazon controlled looked like a normal phone, but there were four cameras on the front that were there to sort of track your face and create a dynamic, 3d effect inside the interface so think nintendo 3ds, but like slightly better. It’S really hard to show on camera, but it did work. You could almost see into your phone rather than a flat screen. In all fairness, it was cool, but it was not even close to the performance of other phones out there, including the iphone, and at least for me. I got a headache after like three minutes of looking at it just overall, the whole phone was a disaster of a mess. Amazon understandably, never said how many fire phones they sold, but the rumor is. It was tens of thousands which were company amazon size, not good. A year later, in 2015 it got just the uh, the big axe, and this was kind of the norm. Back in the day for amazon, they had a few hits, but they couldn’t find that next product that would elevate amazon to a tech product leader uh.
But that’s where the amazon echo comes in, so the first amazon echo was released back in 2014, actually around the time of the fire phone, but unlike the fire phone gekko is actually good um. Now i remember, i don’t know if you guys remember, but when this came out i laughed at it. I was like who’s going to need a smart speaker. What is a spark smart speaker? Well, i have to talk to my speaker. It sounded ridiculous now. I now have like 14 smart figures, uh scattered throughout my house um, but this was sort of a smart speaker for your home was the first time we’d seen this with a new alexa ai assistant built in it could do stuff that you’d expect it could answer Questions playback, music control, smart devices, all the things you’d expect from smart speakers today, but it was the first attempt from amazon.
It was actually shockingly good and amazon now seems even more focused and has a clear path, sort of what products work and don’t work. They’Ve got a giant winning strategy and it’s all in the house and i’m getting to the apple stuff. Here i promise, and this is a place where you can clearly see amazon’s advantage over apple. So, of course, i mean apple technically has an assistant with siri which released back on the iphone 4s in 2011. But i think it’s like a fair to say: it’s stagnated over the past few years. There’S never been leaps and bounds of improvements with siri, at least from a user perspective.
Alexa has expanded and grown. You can now get alexa on dozens of products, dozens of uses. In fact, i have alexa in my car uh apple. On the other hand, uh they got the homepod. This, ideally, would have been a great sounding speaker, but since using siri, the knowledge base isn’t quite as good as amazon has to offer, and it’s very noticeable instead of talking with the speaker and because of this amazon’s able to expand its echo line into ton. Different categories they make earbuds thermostats wall clocks. The list goes on and on, but they’re all stems from the original echo being really good.
That hit product is a big reason why amazon is so popular today. Even more importantly, it gave amazon a face or kind of a voice. They were able to give users a interaction point to one of their most important products, amazon, prime – and that is a ginormous reason why buying products on amazon became the default for a ton of customers fast shipping reliability made. You knew when your product would arrive and you’re confident it’ll. Actually, you know happen all that led to amazon prime and gave rise sort of the prime infrastructure they have now kind of culminating in prime day, which is july 12th to 13th.
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There is no doubt that when it comes to commerce, especially in the home, uh amazon is just straight up. King we’re hearing some rumors. That apple is working at least again i’ll try to close that gap. So there are two different rumors at play here.
One is that in the next few months, apple released a new big home pod. Think of this as a replacement for the og homepod, not the mini. This new homepod will supposedly focus on sound quality. Listen all the homepods sound good, i’m not expecting a huge update to design.
We should see support for lossless, audio and dolby atmos. That’S her late use of speaker for true surround sounds especially when connected to tvs, obviously other rumors that they might have a screen or not or cameras built in big deal allegedly will be priced original, homepod debuted at a way too expensive, 350 bucks. That was a ton actually in a world of 30 amazon echoes. Hopefully, this time the price should drop. I’D expect something around the 250 range, but the biggest most exciting rumor is for next generation homepod.
That is packing much more than that and according to pretty reliable mark german apple is working on a homepod apple tv combo device made for living room so apparently so have all the smarts, the homepod that we’re used to also have apple tv hardware built in and A facetime camera, so, theoretically from the comfort of your couch, you could have all the apple stuff, a great speaker, an apple tv and facetime setup. This was something really unique. The apple could, theoretically, do really well she’s, not sure how comfortable i am having cameras over my house, but apple has been pretty good at privacy in the past. If this would be enough to beat amazon, i don’t know. Amazon has way too much of a lead too much of a price advantage for really much to change, and the fact that in 2022, apple is still trying to figure out how to make a smart speaker shows that amazon has probably very little to worry about, and Look apple’s, obviously doing fine when it comes to revenue and products, look at their their earnings, but the home category shows that apple is not always the best option in the market and amazon is clearly taking advantage of that.
So when you compare apples – and i guess amazon’s this whole video was born out of a desire to talk about the services and where amazon has been so successful as a service company and where apple has been so successful as a hardware company and sometimes they overlap And they can clash and they can meet. The two have mostly been friendly. There’S been sort of some disagreements between the two, but as they grow and as their products and services expand. We’Re gon na see a lot more competition between apple and amazon and whenever two tech behemoths competes generally consumers end up winning .